2013 Opening Day

Where will the games be in Florida? You can stay in Ocala with us!

We've got 48 more days but I can hardly wait! High expectations for this season, but you never know how things are going to pan out. That's part of the attraction, I guess.

41 days...........

The 4 games will be played in Lakeland Jonathan.

Is that anywhere close to you guys?

You guys are so lucky to be that close. We're 68 days 23 hrs 28 min and 28 seconds away.

Opening weekend Feb 1-3. Already have flight, car and hotel booked....can't wait.

That's in my neighborhood. Floridafan has spent lots of time there through the years. Denny Doyle instructs at the Joker Marchant facility. Keep us posted!

Hey I'll be in Florida too this season! I want to join the party!

It's a plan!

Diana- I'll be a bit closer to the beach than you...we shall talk. Hope all is well.

Thanks. Looking forward to enjoying this last high school year. Always looking for excuses to see the beach!

Lakeland!

March 15 in Atlanta for USSSA 13u Super NIT. I know it's still about 80 days away but it will be my son's first SNIT and he's psyched, and I'm psyched for him to play against some of the best teams in the country.

It's beginning to sound like we may have a small HSBBW gathering of the minds in late January in Lakeland!

This could be awesome!

YGD

Sounds great!

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The Taco Bell® next to the Best Buy® in the North Lake Plaza...let's do it! The first round of Chalupa Supremes® are on me...literally!





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36 days till Opening Day in Alabama . I can hardly wait , wife says she wishes I would go earlier cause i'm driving her nuts . Lol . Good Luck to all this coming season . Play Ball !

45 Days before SP_Son laces them up to begin his collegiate career here in VA.

As I watch the snow falling outside of the window today, I am reminded that "baseball weather" usually arrives to stay here in VA sometime around mid-April ... Just in time for their Conference Tournament

The competition will certainly be hotter in collegiate ball, but I expect the climate will be significantly cooler for more of the season. SP_Son could care less about that; he's just happy to have the opportunity to keep playing the game he loves. He'll throw snowballs to the hitters if that's what it takes to play.

Best wishes to all of the young devotees of the diamond this spring as they continue chasing their baseball dreams ... at all levels of the game.

May be in Myrtle Beach the middle of February for one of the Coastal Carolina tourneys....anyone else.

On the HS side....93 days till my son's first game...hopefully with the Varsity.

I'm looking forward to my son's first college game on 2/15 - only 50 days away, if my math is right.

You guys start earlier in the east...

First practice is 1/9.

HS Baseball/Softball tryouts start first week of February, so looking forward to that as well.

Just bumping this up, because I can't stand waiting for baseball and want to vent!! I have the January blues. Anyone else?

It's a totally different feeling to wait for senior HS season. Bitter-sweet, fun, exciting for him to be co captain, to want to win the conference again and take a run at states.

But I am also already checking out the schedule for the university team he'll be joining next year. I marked the dates on my calendar for their games in state this year. Can't wait for those, too.

So, like many of us, I am looking forward to lots of baseball this spring, but staring out at snow. We have about 7 weeks before pitchers and catchers start.

Son's a freshman at a DII JUCO - opening day is Feb. 10. We won't see many games - he's a 5 hour drive away.

Baseballmom - I hear ya on the senior year - went through that last year. And what a year it was. Son's HS team won the district tournament for the first time in 25 years and made it to the state quarterfinals. In the district game my son hit a run scoring double with 2 outs in the 7th to tie the game. They went on to win in the 8th.

And speaking of snow - our area is under a Winter Storm Advisory. Rain right now, but expected to turn to snow later this afternoon.